Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/91749 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Policy Paper No. 65
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational training systems more effective and to adjust employment protection as well as activating labor market policies. However, short-term remedies are not available, despite the fact that the EU has announced massive European initiatives. Rather, European countries should take the opportunity of the crisis to implement forward-looking structural reforms.
Subjects: 
fixed-term contracts
Europe
vocational training
youth unemployment
JEL: 
J24
J64
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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